[trendnet]

Why do people think that Swift has a managed runtime with garbage collection? It has reference counting, it's compiled into native code. It has a small runtime lib. linked into the executable (but hey, even C executables have it).

[pjmlp]

The younger generations grew with VM based implementations, never learned the memory safe system programming languages that lost the market to C and C++ and lack compiler design understanding.

As such, any language they see announced as safer than C and C++ must be VM based.